> So that means that pretty much 100% of development to any one area is being
> done by one person?!? That's cool, but doesn't it limit the speed at which
> forward progress can be made?
The closest approximation my minds-eye can make of how things work
look something like this..
h h h h h
\ | | | /
m m m
\ |/
ttt
|
l
h - random j hacker working on same file/subsystem different goals
m - maintainer for file/subsys
t - "forked" tree maintainer (-ac, -dj, -aa etc..)
l - Linus
Whilst development happens concurrently in parallel, the notion of
progress is somewhat serialised as changes work their way down to
Linus.
(This whole thing goes a little astray when random j hacker sends
patches straight to Linus bypassing everyone else and they get
merged, but the controlled anarchy prevails and everyone somehow
gets back in sync).
Dave.
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